Or the wallets of women you know.
If women in the United States got paid minimum wage for their unpaid labor, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year. For International Women’s Day today, my colleagues took a look at the value of this unpaid labor. “It exceeds the combined revenue of the 50 largest companies on last year’s Fortune Global 500 list, including Walmart, Apple and Amazon,” they write. The problem in the United States and globally is much larger than unpaid labor — you don’t have to look beyond the International Women’s Day rallies in Pakistan to see that. There are real consequences for gender inequality. “Curse your women, and you curse your nation,” writes Valerie M. Hudson. So what can you do? Melinda Gates has one suggestion: talk about it. — Alexandra March |
Are You an Anti-Influencer? |
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If you find yourself buying products that are soon discontinued and voting for political candidates who always lose, you might be a “harbinger of failure.” These harbingers even seem to be clustered in the same ZIP codes (but don’t worry — it’s not contagious). |
How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts |
Americans are dying deaths of despair, and the reason has a lot to do with inequality. In particular, the lives of whites with a college degree and those without one look starkly different, and there’s a jarring difference in life expectancy. |
Lessons From Scanning the Brains of Potential Terrorists |
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Is it possible to prevent the next white-nationalist attack? Nafees Hamid tried to find out by examining the brains of supporters of groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda. Here’s what he learned. |
 | | Annie Jen |
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‘I Love the World but I Cannot Stay’ |
 | | Chloe Cushman |
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